Writing about last night’s debate on newsweek.com, Richard Wolffe focused on John McCain‘s physical presentation: “He paced up and down in fits and starts as he spoke. He leapt from subject to subject, sound byte to sound byte. Between answers, he sat down and scribbled page after page of notes, then jumped up and paced …
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I am pretty thrilled to have won at auction on eBay copies of four prints by James Gillray, the great British satirical artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Gillray had a sharp pen and a merciless and brilliantly comic sensibility that must have reduced the targets of satire to tears and rage. …
A word of encouragement from Mr. Hugh Cook: “I want to thank you for posting your book reviews and author interviews on the Playboy Blog (blog.playboy.com). This longtime Playboy reader appreciates your efforts and commitment to the printed word.” Thanks, Hugh!
It turns out that the 2001 Playmate of the Year, Brande Roderick, is competing in the upcoming season of The Celebrity Apprentice. Since the 2005 PMOY Tiffany Fallon was unceremoniously booted off the on the first episode of last season’s show, the high command dispatched all the troops onto 57th Street this morning to buy …
At Politico.com, Roger Simon asks a panel of Republican war horses if John McCain can still win, and die-hard loyalists to a man, they say “Hell yeah!” Gregg Muller, an advisor to Steve Forbes and Pat Buchanan, says “McCain can definitely win the race. . . . He needs to define Obama’s agenda as dangerous …
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York has found a compelling way to attract visitors to its exhibit Cutting Realities: Gender Strategies in Art. Outside its space at 11 East 52nd Street, it has mounted a large monitor, which shows a loop of a 16 mm film called “Consumer Art”, made in the seventies by the …
The very first Sexie Awards, given for excellence in Sex-Positive Journalism, were presented on Saturday night at Splash on West 17th Street. Not only did Playboy sweep the three awards given in its category, but, I’m delighted to say, “Sex in Iran”, by Pari Esfandiari and Richard Buskin, a piece I edited, won first place. …
I don’t suppose it’s everyone’s idea of heaven, but it works for me: I had breakfast today with Lawrence O’Donnell, he of MSNBC–The West Wing—Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan fame, and for nearly two hours, he regaled me with tales of politics and punditry. Some of his views (at, some of the ones I can share): …
The singlemost thing that impressed me about last night’s Biden-Palin debate was how fast they both talked. Both of them, and especially the slow-talkin’ westerner, ripped through their answers. Counting Gwen Ifill‘s questions, there were 17,083 words spoken in last night’s 90 minute debate; there were 16,146 spoken in last week’s presidential debate. These kids …
Here’s what’s happening with five weeks until election day. Obama‘s lead is moving beyond measurable to solid. He is achieving in some polls the talismanic mark of 50 percent. He is opening leads in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri. Two days ago, a GOP House of Representatives, egged on by phone callers roused up by right …